After meeting a man in Artsakh who vowed never to leave, Sheila Paylan feared he had died when more than 100,000 Armenians fled Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023. Years later, a fallen wheat wreath makes her reconsider what it means to keep a promise, love a homeland and choose to survive.
For more than three decades, the Armenia-Turkey border has been closed but trading continued through indirect routes. Beatriz Arslanian examines Turkey’s decision to authorize direct trade, its economic implications for Armenia, and whether incremental economic ties can help advance long-delayed political normalization.
Using Jorge Luis Borges’ imagined world of Tlön as a lens, Sebouh David Aslanian examines Azerbaijan’s decades-long reinvention of Caucasian Albania, arguing that a fabricated historical narrative has been deployed to appropriate Armenian heritage, erase the region’s Armenian past, and reshape the South Caucasus in the present.
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